We are painting. It started with the bedroom over the garage. We always called it the "Pink" bedroom. It is a large room with a walk-in closet, very nice but the wallpaper that was on the walls and the ceiling was pink. The family that lived her before us had a daughter who occupied that room.
Taking the wallpaper off was quite a choir because the walls had not been sized or painted before being papered. The resultant damage cost about $650 to repair but the end result looks great. It has now become the basket bedroom because we put oak boards with pegs on two walls and Darlene has hung her homemade baskets along the walls.
There was an old cedar chest in the room that belonged to my mother. It looked like it was painted black and the top was badly scratched. I started to sand it and discovered beautiful wood under the dark lacquer. I refinished the top and then decided to do the rest and it turned out very nice (see my facebook photos).
The next room is the dinning room and it started out petty well but I ran into another problem in the kitchen. The kitchen sink drain plugged completely. I bought drain cleaner, a snake and a device that forces high pressure water into the drain. Nothing was working, the liquid drain cleaner had some success but it didn't clear the blockage.
After lots of poking with the snake and forcing water pressure into the lines, the clog cleared. It felt so good to resolve it without spending $200 on a plumber.
Next will be the den and then the living room. Darlene is painting patches of different paint colors on the walls and it is looking like a quilt right now.
I don't really like painting but I really enjoy working on projects with Darlene. I don't know what it is but projects draw us together and there never seems to be a shortage of projects.
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